After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer

I know that‘s not what this topic is about at its core, but let me tell you: go watch Furiosa. Like, right now.

It’s a symbiosis of most enjoyable craziness and excellent execution like nothing before it.

The central street war / chase scene borders on life-altering.

Go see Furiosa! It's not quite as incredible as Fury Road, but it's pretty darn great, and it's the exact kind of movie you should see in the cinema. Feeling the rumble in the chair from the sound system while watching is honestly thrilling.

I realize we all have excellent TVs and sound systems at home now, but the cinema is still worth it, and especially for movies like Furiosa that were just made to be experienced in one. Watching at home is definitely a much lesser experience.

What did we expect? With the rise in content creation its turned into a fast paced content mill. Most ideas are not really new. The ones that are, tend to be more niche. With increased content options, the share of consumer will be smaller for any given one.

Let it burn.

> If the summer blockbuster season is ever to recover, it's going to require some blue-sky thinking.

Yeah, revolutionary thinking like: stop producing recycled content slop, lower the budgets, make original films not based on pre-existing IPs. Maybe even try some relatable human-scale stories instead of wannabe grandiose "save the galaxy" type stuff.

I can't believe a human being with a pulse can sit through a superhero movie. The way those things are constructed, their "nutritional value", is worse than run-of-the-mill degenerate isekai harem anime, expect the latter costs a lot less to make and wastes less human potential.

I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this, but talking to most people my age, there’s only one that’s the real reason: the economics are terrible for watching a movie. The tickets are averaging $20-30 per person around where I live. In 2018, the same movies cost $7-13. Parking and food push the costs even higher. All for a couple of hours of entertainment. I can watch the same movie for $20 when it comes out on DVD. It simply doesn’t make sense to go to watch a movie in a theater, especially when everything else is eating up people’s budgets.